The candidates who had survived this final cut were safe to finish the season out.

Of them some twenty-four were on the 'varsity and sixteen on the second.
The preliminary season was ended, and with the next game, that with Benton Military College, which was to be played at Hastings-on-Sound, the serious work might be said to begin.
The second, under Brownell, became a separate aggregation, moved to its own training table in the dining-hall, had its own signals and practised on its own gridiron.

It even had its own coach, for a graduate named Boutelle--soon shortened to "Boots"-- appeared on the scene and took command.

"Boots" was a rather large man of thirty-odd years who had graduated from Brimfield before the days of football there.

He had learned the game very thoroughly, however, at college, and was enthusiastically eager to impart his knowledge.